Shipwrecked

by Sparrow Knight

Day 1.5 Medical Check

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"Alright blood pressure is slightly below average of a pony but again you are a completely different species so I'll have to repeat over the next few days" Heart explained as she removed velcro straps from the device on Lex's arm. "Next i just need to take some measurements to jot down" she explained as she placed the device on top of a monitor and carefully pushed it aside.

"Measurements for what?" Lex asked as he watched the mare.

"Well until we find out if your the first of your kind to be discovered, I am cladding you as the average" she explained.

"Alright… what do you have to measure?" The man asked as the mare collected a measuring tape.

"The basics like chest, waist, upper arm thickness, length of your arms and legs… basics" She said with a smile.

"As long as it doesn't get too invasive" Lex replied a bit unnerved by the mate's smile.

"It won't be… unless it turns out you are the first of your kind to be discovered then everything has to be measured," she said with a sly wink, causing Lex to cross his legs, biting back the sting of putting pressure on his wounded leg. The sight of him doing so caused the mare to burst out laughing. "I'm kidding," she said as she laughed for a few moments. "Ah, no that's something really weird to do" She said as she wiped her eyes and composed herself. "Alright could you show me your arm?" She asked.

Lex silently agreed as he stretched out his left arm, while Cherry stood parallel to his arm. "This may be a tad cold" she advised as she wrapped a length of the measuring tape around his bicep and tricep. "Hmm a lot more solid than I thought." She muttered to herself as her horn ignited again. Lex noticed her pen and clipboard floating next to her while writing. She moved the measuring tape down to his forearm and tightened it. "You know, I once dated a stallion who's forearms are 4 times thicker than his biceps and triceps" she said with a chuckle.

"Your attracted to that?" Lex said as he looked confused.

"Not really, we were together for a month, got sick of him always going on about his muscles being awesome" she said with a shrug. "I was going through a phase at the time as well where i was a bit of a gym slut" she added.

"I guess we have all done shit we regret" Lex replied with a chuckle.

"Oh you remember something?" Cherry asked as she wrapped the tape around his upper torso, crossing over his nipples, causing him to jump slightly at the cold.

"Ah, sort of. I was helping someone with a group of friends and we were stuck on the roof of a burning building…" Lex explained while straining to remember as Cherry wrapped the tape around his shoulders.

"Oh no, how did you get down?" Cherry asked.

"Well we were right next to the bay so we decided to jump… even though if we checked around first we would have noticed the ladder leading down to the ground." He continued to explain.

"So what happened?" She asked as she measured around his stomach.

"Well out of the five of us… well let's just say I'm not great at long jumping" Lex stated as he pulled up his pants leg and showed the scars on his lower right leg.

"Well ow" she said cringing.

"Yea, was not fun," he said with a chuckle as Cherry wrapped the tape around his right thigh.

"I'd like to say that I've never don't something so stupid before but I can't" She said with a smile. "Alright now for the part your gonna hate."

"I have to stand up, don't I?" He asked as the Mare gave a hesitant nod. "Oh fun, but yea I've been trying to remember more but it's not working" he groaned in annoyance before he slowly lowered his feet to the floor, making sure to put more weight on his right leg. Cherry placed her hands on his torso to help balance him while he kept his hands on her shoulder and the bed.

"Alright stay like that for a few seconds," she said as the measuring tape floated next to him before extending to measure his height. After a few long seconds the tape moved in front of Cherry's face so she could read it. "6 foot. Alright cool let's get you back on the bed" She said, helping the man keep balance as he pulled himself back onto the bed.

"Thanks" He said with a chuckle. "So is that everything?"

"Almost, just need to jot down eye colour and… Well only eye colour I guess" she said as she looked at her paperwork as she added the measurements.

"What was the other thing?" He asked as the mare grabbed a small silver cylinder.

"Your age but seeing as your memory is not in the best condition, we will skip that" she said as she very gently held his eye lips open. She clicked a small lever on the cylinder, causing a beam of white light to shoot out the end. " This will be annoying so sorry in advance" she said before she shone the torch in his left eye. Lex did his best to keep his eyes open for the couple seconds she shone the light in his eyes.

"Alright interesting, you are quite unique in comparison to anything have seen before" Cherry said as she stopped shining the light in Lex's right eye as the man rubbed his eyes.

"What do you mean?" Lex groaned as she blinked a couple times.

"Well your left eye is blue while the other eye is an unnatural gold, which seemed to reflect the light like actual metal would." She explained as she finished writing down notes.

"That's weird" Lex said as he raised an eyebrow.

"Yes it is, hopefully the princess will have more information about you if there have been other instances of your species." Cherry explained as she began packing up her instruments.

"Should I be worried?" Lex asked.

"No Princess Celestia is a very nice Mare, many believe her to be perfect also." Cherry explained.

"Wait the same Celestia as the one some ponies referring to in a similar matter to a god?" Lex questioned.

"Yea some ponies believe her to be a god… kind of helps that she is untouched by time and can move the sun and moon" Cherry said offhandedly.

"Wait what?!" He asked in shock.

"Yea she can move the celestial bodies" Cherry explained to the man, how continued to look at her in utter confusion. "Look she may come here either because you are one of a kind, the magic that resurrected you far surpasses what she has done before or because the ship you arrived on is a design that hasn't been used in over 1000 years."

"Wait so the entity that used the magic that revived me is more powerful then someone who can move a FUCKING SUN!" Lex said in disbelief.

"Pretty much" Cherry replied as she leaned against the bed. "A lot of us are probably trying to figure out what could have done this"

"But why me?" He asked her, as she looked at him.

"That is one of the major questions… my only guess is that you must be important" She replied. "And I don't know whether to be nervous or relieved"

"I guess we will have to wait and see" Lex said as he rested his hands on his knees. "Any idea how long until she arrives?" Lex askes.

"Ahhh well seeing Spade hasn't sent off the letter yet and the fact that the Summer Solstice is in a couple of days… may be a week or two depending on how busy she is afterworlds but she shouldn't be too busy. " Cherry explained.

"I'm guessing seeing she would make a big thing about that seeing she can control the sun and it's the longest day of the year" Lex stated.

"Right you are, now I'm gonna check if we have anything in your size" She said as she gestured the man's ruined clothes.

"Thank you, it's getting a bit drafty" he replied with a chuckle as Cherry smiled and walked off with her tray of tools. As soon as she was out of sight and the man was alone, Lex leant forward and rubbed his eyes with his thumb and index fingers. "What the hell have I been thrust into?" He asked himself. He looked at his bandaged leg and tilted his head slightly. "Could be worse I guess, could have lost the leg" he muttered. A few minutes went passed of waiting without anything happening before the man groaned.

"Well this is boring as batshit" he grumbled as he placed his hands on the edge of the bed and gently lowered his feet to the floor. Doing his best not to put too much pressure on his injured left leg. He felt a faint burning pain in his leg as he slowly put more and more weight on it.

It took a couple moments for Lex to adjust to it but when he did, he slowly made his way over to the exit that Cherry went through. As He reached the door, he glanced around and cocked his eyebrow. "You'd think they would have someone watching me" he muttered as he opened the door and stepped outside. Once outside, it took him a few moments for his eyes to adjust to the much brighter exterior.

Once his eyes adjusted, he looked around to see that there weren't many ponies around, and fewer that took any notice of him. . The few that noticed him watched him for a few moments before approaching as Lex leant against the wall right of the doorway. He could feel the heat radiating from the wall he was against as he watched a pair of mares in similar outfits to Silver Wing along with steel chest plates, leg and arm armour and shields.

The first was a unicorn with amber mane and saffron fur around six foot 3, the other was a five foot eleven, aqua pegasus with a braided lime mane. Most of the mare’s other details were difficult to determine with their armour on. The unicorn mare stopped next to the wall to the right of the man while the pegasus stopped a few feet in front of Lex with her arms crossed.

“And what do you believe you are doing?” the pegasus mare asked as she looked the man up and down. “Your a couple of threads away from public indecency” She joked with a coy smile as her Violet eyes met his.

“Oh you know, just getting some air” Lex replied.

“Right and nothing else?” The unicorn asked in a deep rustic accent as he emerald eyes seemed to pure into the side of his head.

“Well i can’t bloody run off with this leg…” Lex stated as he gestured his left leg. “and besides, looks like we are in the middle of a desert…” He continued as he gestured pasted the Unicorn at the sand dunes in the distance.” and also i doubt those wings are just for show” Lex finished as he pointed to the pegasus.”

“He makes a solid point Star” The pegasus states with a smile.

“Yes he does, though I doubt Doctor Cherry will be too happy with her patient going for a walk.” Star replied as she leant against the wall.

"Besides I needed to stretch my legs, all the sitting is murder on them" Lex added.

"Yes but Lieutenant Silver Wing did instruct us to make sure you didn't try anything" the pegasus explained.

"Yea but I don't really have any intention try anything against the people who got me out of that ship" Lex explained.

After staring at him for a few moments the pegasus mare nodded. "Alright I believe you" She stated.

"You can't be serious Dancer" Star said as she turned her attention to the pegasus.

"What I believe him, is that so hard to believe?" Dancer replied.

"Yea it is, he is an unknown creature with unknown capabilities… buck he could think we are food!" Star growled

"Standing right here"

"Well what can I bucking say, he has an honest face and isn't giving off major murder energy!" Dancer replied.

"Murder Energy?!" Lex asked concerned and curious

"Doesn't matter, remember when we worked on at that dig site way up north and that Doctor tried to kill everyone?!" Star replied.

"Wait what?!"

"If I recall he got controlled a freaky sword that was talking to him" Dancer stated.

"What happened to him?" Lex butted in.

"Oh well, things got really crazy with weird creatures coming out of the dig site. We thought we were all done for when suddenly we were teleported away. And i mean all 250 ponies who were alive, save the crazy doctor. Then we watched from where we were, the entire dig site was surrounded in golden energy." dancer explained before Star butted in.

"It was the princess, she must have sensed a disturbance or something and arrived… and when she did, all that was in her magical aura was incinerated." Star explained.

"Although as we watched it burn, we witnessed the Princess fly into the flames and retrieve the Doctor and the sword, which was now encased in crystal" Dancer added. "The Doctor was fine after a few days but resigned, while the sword in probably within the Royal Vaults so nopony can be corrupted by it"

"Holy shit, you know I was nervous about possibly meeting the Princess, but now I think I should probably try and leg it" Lex said with a nervous chuckle.

"Don't worry, she is quite nice if she deems you not a threat to her people" a new voice added causing Lex to turn to see a 6 foot 4 muscular bronze stallion with large bat wings, a short steel mane and tail. He was dressed in a blue flannel top and green cargo shorts. He was holding a small bundle in his arms, which shifted occasionally. Standing beside him was Cherry, who looked less than impressed with Lex. She had a bundle of clothes in her arms, along with a few containers.

"Hey Doc" Lex said as he rubbed the back of his neck.

"Why are you out of bed?" She asked In a calm yet annoyed tone.

"Well I needed to stretch my legs and get some air" he said replied with a nervous chuckle.

"Right and what if you broke your stitches?" She asked him.

"Well then I'm sure you would have killed me" Lex replied.

"Yea she probably would" the bat winged stallion replied with a chuckle, gaining a glare from Cherry.

"Really Forge?" She asked with a grumble.

"Really" the large stallion replied with a chuckle.

"Sorry to come off as rude but how come you have bat wings?" Lex asked the stallion.

"Oh that's alright, I'm a Thresal or Bat Pony. What about you, what are you?" Forge asked.

"He doesn't remem…" Cherry started before Lex cut her off.

"I'm an Aasimar" Lex said to him before giving a confused look. "Damn, that was automatic" He said as he placed his hand on his lips.

"A Assi what?" Star asked.

"I know right, No idea what one is but I guess that's what I am" Lex explained to her as he shrugged.

"Might be that your memory requires triggers in order for it to return" Cherry explained as she offered the bundle of clothes and containers. "Here, they are my husband's clothes from when he was younger" Cherry stated as Forge smiled.

"Hopefully they fit you, though looking at you, you are a lot smaller, width wise then I have ever been" Forge explained.

"Thanks I guess… What are the containers for?" Lex asked as she inspected them.

"Well Cherry told me that she believes you to be omnivorous, and seeing as Thresals are as well, I gathered up some jerky I made for you in case you got hungry" Forge explained.

"Thank you, you both are incredibly kind" Lex said.

" No worries, anyway my name is Steel Forge, is shake your hand but I'm holding this one" Forge said as he nodded down to the bundle in his arms.

"Nice to meet you, my name is Alexander or Alex or Lex for short" Lex explained.

"Pleasure to meet you" Forge said with a warm smile.

"Oh crap we didn't introduce ourselves." Star said as she offered her hand. "My name is Morning Star" she said as Lex took her hand in his right while holding the bundle to his chest.

"And I'm Ocean Dancer" Dancer said shaking his hand next.

"Nice to meet you both." Lex said with a smile.

"Alright let's head inside so you can get changed then we shall see if we can jog any memories" Cherry said as she opened the door and gestured the man in.

"Sure, let's try" Lex said as he entered the building.


Author's Note

Hey so here is Chapter 2,
So this is just before the events of episode 1. I'm up for any suggestions if you guys want :)

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